Community Initiatives Manager

Status: Exempt (Salaried) 

Reports to: Senior Director of Operations and Impact

Location: 148 S 39th St, Omaha, NE

Work Schedule: FPI operates on a 7.5-hour workday with core hours of 9am–3pm. This role offers hybrid flexibility with regular in-office collaboration expected. 

Compensation: Hiring range of $98,800-$117,700 with eligibility for annual incentive compensation (typically 4-8% of base salary).  

We are committed to equitable compensation practices and base salaries on a consistent framework tied to role scope, responsibility, and experience. Most candidates will be hired near the midpoint of the range, depending on experience and qualifications. 

Benefits: Comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, and vision insurance; retirement contributions; generous paid time off; professional development support; and hybrid work flexibility.  

Organizational Overview: 

Front Porch Investments was formed in 2021 to address the gap in affordable housing in the region. Front Porch Investments serves as a catalyst for innovative and community-centered affordable housing solutions, with a focus on investment, advocacy, and engagement. We prioritize production and preservation of affordable housing, housing justice, and innovative housing models, working across public-private partners to strengthen the regional housing ecosystem. Front Porch Investments is a supporting organization of the Omaha Community Foundation.   

Core Values: 

• Human-Centered. We believe in housing as a human right and center this belief in our work. 

• Bold. We make bold decisions to support housing innovation. 

• Inclusive. We prioritize equitable access to the housing ecosystem, especially for historically excluded voices. 

• Collaborative. We believe collaboration across systems is where transformative change happens. 
  
  

Role Overview: 

The Community Initiatives Manager serves as Front Porch Investments’ lead steward of housing justice, community intelligence,  and community informed system change efforts that advance affordable housing outcomes. This position identifies emerging needs, opportunities, and barriers within the housing ecosystem and works across sectors to translate insights into action. 

Responsibilities and Duties 

Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following: 

Community Intelligence & Ecosystem Insights (25%) 

• Ecosystem Analysis: Monitor housing trends, barriers, and gaps across the metro’s housing ecosystem and identify opportunities for organizational action, collaboration, or investment. 

• Stakeholder Intelligence: Gather, synthesize, and communicate community and stakeholder perspectives to identity emerging needs and community priorities and inform organizational priorities, initiatives, and decision making. 

• Opportunity Identification: Identify emerging issues, innovative approaches, and partnerships that align with Front Porch’s mission and strategic goals. 
  
  

Greenlining & Community-Informed Systems Change (35%) 

• Housing Justice Leadership: Serve as the organizational lead for advancing housing justice priorities and community-informed approaches that strengthen housing opportunity and address systemic barriers. 

• Greenlining Leadership: Lead implementation of recommendations, initiatives, and partnerships and help guide the evolution of Greenlining as a long-term organizational strategy. 

• Community Advisory Committee (CAC) Support: Staff the CAC, including recruitment, orientation, facilitation, and ongoing engagement. 

• Systems Change Initiatives: Identify and advance opportunities to address structural barriers to housing stability, access, and affordability through partnerships, investments, policy alignment, and collaboration. 

• Strategy Development: Collaborate with organizational leadership to develop and implement community-informed strategies that advance housing opportunity and organizational priorities. 

• Cross-Functional Integration: Work closely with policy, development, lending, and communications staff to ensure community insights and priorities are reflected across organizational initiatives. 
  
  

Strategic Initiatives & Ecosystem Collaboration (30%) 

• Initiative Leadership: Lead or support strategic initiatives such as pilot projects, studies, and special projects. 

• Ecosystem Collaboration: Design and facilitate collaborative initiatives with ecosystem partners.  

• Project Management: Develop work plans, coordinate partners, manage timelines, and monitor progress for key initiatives. 

• Convening & Facilitation: Plan and facilitate collaborative discussions, working groups, learning exchanges, conferences, and implementation efforts. 

• Implementation Support: Help move ideas, recommendations, and collaborative efforts into actionable programs, projects, and partnerships. 
  
  

Grant Administration, Learning & Impact (10%) 

• Grant Portfolio Management: Administer the Innovation Fund and legacy grant investments including coordinating review processes, developing funding recommendations, tracking results, and reporting to the board.
  

• Impact Measurement: Track outcomes associated with grants, strategic initiatives, and partnerships. 

• Organizational Learning: Translate lessons learned from community engagement, strategic initiatives, and grant investments into recommendations for continuous improvement and future action. 

• Reporting: Prepare reports and presentations that communicate progress, impact, and key insights to leadership, board members, funders, and external stakeholders. 

Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in Public Administration, Urban Planning, Community Development, Public Policy, Social Sciences, or a related field. 

• 5-7 years of experience in community development, affordable housing, public policy, philanthropy, stakeholder engagement, program management, or a related field. 

• Demonstrated experience leading collaborative initiatives and building strategic partnerships across sectors. 

• Strong understanding of affordable housing systems, community development, and systems-change approaches. 

• Experience facilitating meetings, convenings, advisory groups, or multi-stakeholder initiatives. 

• Excellent relationship-building, communication, and facilitation skills. 

• Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously. 

• Strategic thinker capable of moving between high-level organizational goals and detailed implementation. 

• Ability to work effectively with diverse stakeholders, including residents, community leaders, developers, elected officials, funders, and institutional partners. 

• Experience translating community perspectives and stakeholder insights into systems-level strategies, initiatives, or policy recommendations. 
  
  

We encourage candidates with a mix of lived experience, professional expertise, and transferable skills to apply, even if you don’t meet every listed qualification. 

Personal Attributes: 

• Commitment to mission and community-centered work 

• High level of personal initiative and ability to manage projects with minimal supervision 

• Excels working independently and as a member of a highly collaborative team 

• Meticulous attention to detail and commitment to top-quality output 

• Flexible and capable of adapting to changing priorities  

• Ability to organize and manage multiple responsibilities with a high degree of accuracy 

• Unquestionable ethics, honesty, integrity and the ability to spotlight others’ contributions 

• Commitment to ongoing learning 

• Ability to build trusted relationships across diverse partners and communities. 

To Apply 

Front Porch Investments is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.